Indian Institutes of Technology

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The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are tertiary educational institutes established by the Government of India to offer undergraduate, integrated postgraduate and postgraduate degrees and the Doctor of Philosophy in over 25 different engineering, technology and business/management disciplines.

1 Jawaharlal Nehru
2 CBS 60 Minutes
3 Bill Gates
4 Kathy Bushkin
5 References
6 External links

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Jawaharlal Nehru

The first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru said at the first convocation address at IIT Kharagpur:

"Here in the place of that Hijli Detention Camp stands the fine monument of India, representing India's urges, India's future in the making. This picture seems to me symbolical of the changes that are coming to India."<ref name="nehru">IIT Kharagpur's History on IIT Kharagpur's Website. URL accessed on 10 April 2006.</ref>

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CBS 60 Minutes

Lesley Stahl of CBS on 60 Minutes<ref name="cbs">Video about IITs on CBS 60 Minutes. URL accessed on 10 April 2006.</ref>

"Put Harvard, MIT and Princeton together and you begin to get an idea of the status of IITs in India."

N.R. Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys on 60 Minutes:<ref name="cbs"/>

"My son wanted to do computer science. But to be in the IITs he had to be among the top 200 in the country. So he chose Cornell."

Vinod Khosla, venture capitalist on 60 Minutes:

"When I finished IIT Delhi and went to CMU for my master's, I thought I was cruising all the way through Carnegie Mellon because it was so easy, relative to the education I had gotten at IIT Delhi." (Vinod received a Masters in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon and is co-founder of Sun Microsystems)

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Bill Gates

Bill Gates, the co-founder and chaiman of Microsoft, in his speech at India Institute of Technology 50th Anniversary Celebration:<ref>Remarks by Bill Gates. URL accessed 16 April 2006.</ref>

IIT and Microsoft do have a lot in common, an optimism about the future, a belief that fundamental science will lead to breakthroughs that will let us solve some of the toughest problems that mankind faces, a belief that we can provide better tools than ever before and that we've really just scratched the surface.
And it's hard to think of anything like IIT anywhere in the world. It is a very unique institution.

In Salon Magazine

Per capita, IIT has produced more millionaires than any other undergraduate institution.

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Kathy Bushkin

Kathy Bushkin, Executive Vice-President of the UN Foundation said:<ref>"Book lauds IIT, India's Intellectual Treasures". News article in The Indian Express North American Edition, on 19^th December 2003. Copy of the article.</ref>

Fifty years ago, the UNESCO helped to create the IITs as a means of providing superior education to Indians and spurring developments in the country. Today, IIT has helped India become a world leader in science and technology — proving that when we work together, we acheive remarkable progress.

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